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General Software Discussion / Re: XML editor
« Last post by ewemoa on May 03, 2010, 10:56 PM »
Thanks for mentioning XML Marker, sajman99.

Some notes on trying out XML Marker:

  • Appears to write to Registry
  • Universal Extractor seems to handle extraction of setup file ok
  • Seemed to work fine with FARR's .alias files
  • Help file seems pretty decent (even has minor helpful animations :) )

I think this looks like a potentially worthwhile application.

Edit: just minor formatting changes
2177
Living Room / Re: KVM switch woes -- any recommendations?
« Last post by ewemoa on May 03, 2010, 10:43 PM »
FWIW, what I'd been using looks like:

  http://www.misco.co....ils.asp?EdpNo=304101

There was one recurring annoyance which I don't recall very clearly, but it wasn't that frequent.  Currently using only one machine so the switch isn't in use.  Overall I did find it convenient to be able to use one set of peripherals to switch among various boxen.
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Finished Programs / Re: ALT key down visual indicator (for when alt key is stuck)
« Last post by ewemoa on May 02, 2010, 08:12 AM »
I only have this working with my left alt key, but how about something like:

Code: AutoIt [Select]
  1. ; icons adapted from:
  2. ;   Mark James
  3. ;   http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/
  4. FileInstall, Up.ico, Up.ico
  5. FileInstall, Down.ico, Down.ico
  6. UpIconFileName = Up.ico
  7. DownIconFileName = Down.ico
  8. If GetKeyState("Alt")
  9. {
  10.   Menu, Tray, Icon, % DownIconFileName
  11. }
  13. {
  14.   Menu, Tray, Icon, % UpIconFileName
  15. }
  16. Loop
  17. {
  18.   KeyWait, Alt, D
  19.   Menu, Tray, Icon, % DownIconFileName
  20.   KeyWait, Alt, U
  21.   Menu, Tray, Icon, % UpIconFileName
  22. }

Edit: Here is a compiled version with icons.
2179
Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: reopen recently opened explorer windows, history, MRU
« Last post by ewemoa on May 02, 2010, 06:20 AM »
Today I learned something related to this idea while trying out some NirSoft tools.

One of the tools is called "ShellBagsView" and within a corresponding .chm file there is this text:

Each time that you open a folder in Explorer, Windows automatically save the settings of this folder into the Registry. This utility displays the list of all folder settings saved by Windows. For each folder, the following information is displayed: The date/time that you opened it, the entry number, display mode (Details, Icons, Tiles, and so on...), the last position of the window, and the last size of the window.

Perhaps leveraging this information would allow an approach that doesn't try to periodically monitor what Windows Explorer is doing.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: [Feature request] Context sensitivity and alias list
« Last post by ewemoa on May 02, 2010, 02:33 AM »
as for the file explorer to farr, i recall that something like this may exist.. or maybe it's the reverse that exists, going from farr search into file explorer..
-mouser (May 02, 2010, 02:27 AM)
I don't know if it will help, but FWIW, I've been using:

https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=21223.0
2181
Developer's Corner / Re: Resources for learning git?
« Last post by ewemoa on May 01, 2010, 07:55 AM »
Though it requires an installation of Git separately [1], I've been using SmartGit a bit.  My understanding is that there is a license which is free for non-commerical use:

  http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/license-agreement.html

I got a portable version and have it set up with a portable Java installation.

It has been helping me develop my mental model of Git and thus I thought it might count as a resource for the learning of Git.

Now if there were something comparable for Mercurial :)  SmartGit seems to support Mercurial now.


[1] I've tested with portable msys git and have been using it mostly to clone other things.  I didn't manage to figure out how to "git init" so that part I've done via the command line. Figured out how to "git init" with SmartGit.
2182
Skrommel's Software / Re: all links for software are broken
« Last post by ewemoa on May 01, 2010, 05:32 AM »
I confirmed resulting 404 pages for at least a few URLs.

A specific example URL is:

  https://www.donation...dHide/RunAndHide.exe
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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FARR Windows Search 0.1.0
« Last post by ewemoa on April 30, 2010, 11:03 AM »
Thanks for testing it out.

Hmm, too bad it doesn't seem to work out-of-the-box :(

On a side-note, did you happen to come across either of the following?

  http://www.ifilter.org/
  https://secure.wikim...edia/en/wiki/IFilter
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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: [IDEA] FARR Plugin: FARRDevelopersBible
« Last post by ewemoa on April 30, 2010, 11:00 AM »
Thanks for the response phitsc :)

I think FARR WMS with a local file in an appropriate format could well be up to the task intended by the original poster.
-phitsc (April 30, 2010, 06:53 AM)

Sounds very nice!


P.S. Good luck in your company-transitioning.
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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Problems with fscript 1.20
« Last post by ewemoa on April 28, 2010, 04:48 PM »
Nice!  Thanks for the tip :)
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Find And Run Robot / Re: problems with the new beta and the windows search plugin
« Last post by ewemoa on April 28, 2010, 04:30 PM »
I confess guilt regarding the suggestion :)
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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: [IDEA] FARR Plugin: FARRDevelopersBible
« Last post by ewemoa on April 28, 2010, 09:09 AM »
I like the general idea though am much in the dark about good specific approaches.

To share some possibly related thoughts:

I've been building up an alias for local documentation.  It doesn't do much that's fancy for things that haven't been processed by CHM2Alias, but at least I can type "docs <something>" to get uniform quick access to a fair bit of documentation.  If we're talking only CHM, there's this tool, KeyHH which lets one:

Open an HTML Help window based on a keyword search

I was thinking of trying to hook this up to a plugin version of CHM2Alias.

Reasoning:
While FARRWebMetaSearch is a great idea, the purpose of this plugin is to use an offline version to eliminate the requirement of internet access.
-Codebyte (April 27, 2010, 09:28 AM)
Hmm...

https://www.donation....msg194731#msg194731

:)

phitsc?

Also (as hinted at by mouser) I'm interested in seeing if anything useful can come about from:

https://www.donation....msg203103#msg203103

I don't have Windows Search, but if I get another PC at some point, it's likely to run Windows 7 (or something later), and IIUC, Windows Search would be on there by default...so this approach may turn out to be personally interesting once the local OS situations evolves a bit.
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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Problems with fscript 1.20
« Last post by ewemoa on April 27, 2010, 06:49 PM »
BTW : how do you configure aliases (shortcut keys) for these fscript plugins ?
(Since you can't use the normal plugin interface.)
-Armando (April 27, 2010, 06:26 PM)
The short version: I don't and I don't know how in a convenient way.

The longer version: I think it may be technically possible for FScript plugins to provide the ability to configure aliases, but specific FScript plugins may not.  In fact, not many (if any) may currently be
written this way.

Do you have specific ones you'd like to configure?  Depending on the case, it may not be too hard to make a change (this would be via editing an appropriate fscript.js file -- in the case of an FSubscript plugin (e.g. any CZB pack one) the file name may be different and the types of modifications may also differ).  A downside of this approach include that after updates, editing would likely have to happen again.  If you have a specific one in mind, may be we could take a look to see what might be involved.
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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Problems with fscript 1.20
« Last post by ewemoa on April 27, 2010, 06:41 PM »
But... If I may ask... What are the advantages of using 1.20 instead of 1.9 ?
-Armando (April 27, 2010, 06:24 PM)
My rough understanding is like this -- in the case of FScript, development is along a single line, the older stuff is generally less paid attention to / maintained.  I believe that most of the time, things get fixed and features get added, but that's usually taking place at or near the latest version for FScript.  If this understanding is off or in error in some way, may be ecardec (author of FScript) can clarify :)

I'd be surprised if the old timer conflicted with the new one as it was deactivated. But who knows. I'll try.
I didn't test this because I didn't find the older one.

Taking a step back for a moment, I think it might make sense to give some consideration to testing with less plugins first and gradually adding more back.  I think it is not too unusual for less pieces in the picture being simpler to understand and consider.  Alternatively, repeated bisection might be another approach (i.e. disable half of the plugins -- check for symptoms, if they still exist, choose half of the remaining half to disable -- check for symptoms, repeat until nothing is left or symptoms disappear with some plugins remaining).

Good luck with time-related things in the mean time:)
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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Problems with fscript 1.20
« Last post by ewemoa on April 27, 2010, 05:07 PM »
Thanks for the report.

In my testing recently based on a subset of reported plugins, I found that Clock and Timer (the one in CZB pack) didn't seem to get along.  I'm currently trying things out with FScript 1.20 -- I hope we can get that working.

IIUC, the older Timer is no longer maintained -- so it's kind of a "ticking bomb" or a "timer waiting to expire".  Perhaps we can try to get things working so it is not necessary :)

Would you mind moving the older Timer (not the CZB pack one) and Clock somewhere else (with FARR not running, move the Timer and Clock folders from directly under the Plugins directory somewhere outside of the Plugins directory) and seeing if things improve at all?  (If the Timer and Clock folders (or copies) are kept without deletion, I believe it should be possible to restore them.)

Also, in the FARR options window, there should be a Troubleshooting Log section.  If it's enabled, we might get some hints as to some plugins that FARR is encountering difficulties with.

What do you think?
2191
FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FARR Windows Search 0.1.0
« Last post by ewemoa on April 27, 2010, 09:10 AM »
I confess to not having tested FARR Windows Search -- but that has more to do with the machines here lacking the underlying Windows Search functionality.  Is it correct that Windows versions above XP come with Windows Search?  If that's so, once I get such a machine (or license), I'll likely be trying out FARR Windows Search :)
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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FARR Windows Search 0.1.0
« Last post by ewemoa on April 26, 2010, 04:11 PM »
phitsc, mouser recently brought up the idea of a general-purpose chm search tool, and we came across:

http://www.citeknet....abid/64/Default.aspx

Do you think that this IFilter (or something similar) combined with your Windows Search plugin might result in anything interesting?
2193
General Software Discussion / Re: CreateShotcutThere with "Open with" box ?!
« Last post by ewemoa on April 24, 2010, 08:01 AM »
I've been speaking English as far back as I can remember speaking :)

How's this for an explanation of FWIW?
2194
Post New Requests Here / Re: [IDEA] Simple GreaseMonkey Script for Google Search options.
« Last post by ewemoa on April 24, 2010, 01:07 AM »
That's odd, I'm using FF 3.6.3 and with what I tried I got:

GoogleDateKeeper.png

Perhaps that's not working in some way?
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General Software Discussion / Re: CreateShotcutThere with "Open with" box ?!
« Last post by ewemoa on April 23, 2010, 07:05 PM »
Congratulations on getting it working :)

It's odd that it didn't work to begin with...

Sorry, don't feel comfortable discussing physical locations, but...
here is an image of recent nearby view instead :)

sunset.jpg

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General Software Discussion / Re: CreateShotcutThere with "Open with" box ?!
« Last post by ewemoa on April 22, 2010, 05:25 PM »
Sorry, I don't have any good ideas about your situation, but FWIW, the following are some thoughts.

And for the second :
"C:\ProgramFiles\AutoHotKey\compiler\CreateShortcutThere.exe" "%1"
-beslam (April 22, 2010, 01:12 PM)
There are two things about this that I'm curious about:

1. Is the path between the first set of double-quotes where your CreateShortcutThere.exe file lives?  If you copy-paste the path between the first set of quotes into a command prompt window (e.g. run cmd.exe from the run dialog (Windows Key + R)), what do you get as a result?  Alternatively, can you use Windows Explorer to visit the path between the first set of double-quotes without the CreateShortcutThere.exe portion?  If you do, do you see a file named CreateShortcutThere.exe?

2. I'm more used to seeing "Program Files" with a space between the "m" and the "F".  I noticed in the path above that there seems to be no space.  Also, I tend to see "AutoHotkey" with a lower-case "k" in folder names -- though perhaps in this case, it makes no difference -- I noticed that in the path above, there is a capital "K".

If you run the CreateShortcutThere.exe file again and ask it to remove the context sensitive menu entry, does it successfully remove the context sensitive menu entry? 

Also, if you move the exe file somewhere else and try to add to the context sensitive menu by running the exe, does that make any difference as far as the behavior you reported about it not working is concerned?
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General Software Discussion / Re: CreateShotcutThere with "Open with" box ?!
« Last post by ewemoa on April 21, 2010, 05:24 PM »
Hmm, I tried this out just now and it seems to work here.  As in, I see a context sensitive menu item labeled:

  CreateShortcutThere...

and when I invoked it, I got a dialog starting with text:

  Choose where to create the shortcut to

Choosing a location and subsequently clicking the OK button resulted in a shortcut being created appropriately.

FWIW, I checked via regedit, the following registry keys:

  HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\*\shell\createshortcutthere
  HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\*\shell\createshortcutthere\command

The first had a default value of:

  &CreateShortcutThere...

and the second had a default value corresponding to:

  "<path-to-CreateShortcutThere.exe>" "%1"

where <path-to-CreateShortcutThere.exe> was where I had the CreateShortcutThere.exe file.

Perhaps you can see what the case is for your situation?
2198
Site/Forum Features / Re: NANY 2011 :: A New Concept -- Have your say!
« Last post by ewemoa on April 21, 2010, 04:47 PM »
For clarity, if you read over the mercurial help page link on the services page, here is a direct link :

https://admin.dcwing...vices/mercurial.html
-Gothi[c] (April 21, 2010, 01:47 PM)

Thanks for the mercurial set up and the summary :)

digression: some mercurial related info
I found it helpful to configure the hgrc file within a repository (so <repos-dir>/.hg/hgrc) with auth info.  Specifically, adding the following sort of section:

[Select]
[auth]
something.prefix=https://admin.dcwing.com/
something.username=appropriateusername
something.password=appropriatepassword

Where "something" , "appropriateusername", and "appropriatepassword" should be filled in for your case.

It seems there's a relevant posting at StackOverflow, so here's a pointer to that:

  http://stackoverflow...sword-with-mercurial

(The top response had a pointer to a page from http://hgtip.com/ which seems like it might be generally handy.)

May be Gothi[c] can scold me if this sort of set-up is a no-no :)

(I'm using mercurial through an upgraded installation of an old "portable" cygwin.)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: [IDEA] Simple GreaseMonkey Script for Google Search options.
« Last post by ewemoa on April 21, 2010, 05:47 AM »
I don't have a GM script for you but regarding the "past month" functionality, it looks like the Google Date Keeper extension might be helpful:

  https://addons.mozil.../firefox/addon/10243
  http://sites.google....s/google-date-keeper

Does that suit your needs?
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: New program: ActiveHotkeys (freeware)
« Last post by ewemoa on April 20, 2010, 06:13 AM »
Is there already support for VK_APPS (the key that brings up the context-sensitive menu)?

(I checked the thread so far, the docs, and the app itself but didn't have much luck figuring this out.)
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